How to effectively protect against spam on search ranking results is an important issue for contemporary web search engines. This paper addresses the problem of combating one majo...
Guoyang Shen, Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Guang Feng, Sh...
Spatial and temporal data have become ubiquitous in many application domains such as the Geosciences or life sciences. Sophisticated database management systems are employed to ma...
Measuring the similarity between implicit semantic relations is an important task in information retrieval and natural language processing. For example, consider the situation whe...
The Web is rapidly moving towards a platform for mass collaboration in content production and consumption. Fresh content on a variety of topics, people, and places is being create...
Yih-Farn Robin Chen, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, David ...
Blog/news search engines are very important channels to reach information about the real-time happenings. In this paper, we study the popular queries collected over one year perio...